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AMANITA

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Meaning:

Genus of widely distributed agarics that have white spores and are poisonous with few exceptions

Synonyms:

Amanita; genus Amanita

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Amanita" is a kind of...):

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "Amanita"):

Amanita caesarea; Caesar's agaric; royal agaric (widely distributed edible mushroom resembling the fly agaric)

Amanita mappa; false deathcap (agaric often confused with the death cup)

Amanita muscaria; fly agaric (poisonous (but rarely fatal) woodland fungus having a scarlet cap with white warts and white gills)

Amanita phalloides; death angel; death cap; death cup; destroying angel (extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base; differs from edible Agaricus only in its white gills)

Amanita rubescens; blusher; blushing mushroom (yellowish edible agaric that usually turns red when touched)

Amanita verna; destroying angel (fungus similar to Amanita phalloides)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Amanita"):

slime mushroom (a mushroom of the genus Amanita)

Holonyms ("Amanita" is a member of...):

Agaricaceae; family Agaricaceae (large family including many familiar mushrooms)

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